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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

ussenate.com

U.S. Senate - Station Fire Investigation - Angeles National Forest

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

707 ms

ussenate.com screenshot

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Fire officials battling the Station fire reduced resources on the second day of what would become the largest brush fire in L.A. County history. Concerned citizens are demanding a congressional invest...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ussenate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ussenate.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ussenate.com

182 ms

search_left.gif

69 ms

hp_search_bottomcorner.gif

68 ms

senatelogo.png

103 ms

hp_navy_title.gif

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Ussenate.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Scripophily.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Bob.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (894 ms) relates to the external source Bob.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.5 kB (28%)

Content Size

378.7 kB

After Optimization

272.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Ussenate.com main page is 378.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 281.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 97.8 kB
  • After minification 77.6 kB
  • After compression 11.0 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.2 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 86.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 281.0 kB
  • After minification 261.2 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. U S Senate images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (73%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of U S Senate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ussenate.com

ussenate.com

182 ms

search_left.gif

search_left.gif

69 ms

hp_search_bottomcorner.gif

hp_search_bottomcorner.gif

68 ms

senatelogo.png

senatelogo.png

103 ms

hp_navy_title.gif

hp_navy_title.gif

68 ms

hp_navy_leftcurvetop.gif

hp_navy_leftcurvetop.gif

71 ms

hp_navy_shadowrepeater.gif

hp_navy_shadowrepeater.gif

72 ms

pixel_01.gif

pixel_01.gif

76 ms

hp_navy_rightcurvetop.gif

hp_navy_rightcurvetop.gif

77 ms

head1.jpg

head1.jpg

276 ms

BobComLogo.gif

BobComLogo.gif

894 ms

hp_navy_leftcurvebottom.gif

hp_navy_leftcurvebottom.gif

37 ms

smokeylg.jpg

smokeylg.jpg

51 ms

mc2.jpg

mc2.jpg

82 ms

mc1.jpg

mc1.jpg

119 ms

hp_nav_toprepeater.gif

hp_nav_toprepeater.gif

41 ms

hp_nav_lefttop.gif

hp_nav_lefttop.gif

58 ms

hp_nav_righttop.gif

hp_nav_righttop.gif

64 ms

hp_nav_senators.gif

hp_nav_senators.gif

70 ms

hp_nav_committees.gif

hp_nav_committees.gif

74 ms

hp_nav_legislation.gif

hp_nav_legislation.gif

87 ms

hp_nav_arthistory.gif

hp_nav_arthistory.gif

92 ms

hp_nav_visitors.gif

hp_nav_visitors.gif

93 ms

hp_nav_reference.gif

hp_nav_reference.gif

99 ms

hp_navbtmshadow_repeater.gif

hp_navbtmshadow_repeater.gif

107 ms

hp_nav_leftbottom.gif

hp_nav_leftbottom.gif

116 ms

hp_nav_rightbottom.gif

hp_nav_rightbottom.gif

120 ms

hp_searchshadow_topleft.gif

hp_searchshadow_topleft.gif

120 ms

rss2.php

rss2.php

275 ms

head1.jpg

head1.jpg

482 ms

hp_rightbar_bkgd.gif

hp_rightbar_bkgd.gif

37 ms

netscape_cheater.gif

netscape_cheater.gif

38 ms

hp_searchshadow_repeater.gif

hp_searchshadow_repeater.gif

39 ms

Accessibility Review

ussenate.com accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ussenate.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ussenate.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252"

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ussenate.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ussenate.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252". Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

ussenate.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of U S Senate. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: